My home office/studio

This week few sketches from my home office/ studio. I am so lucky to have my own space to work and paint. I have also got a separate big desk dedicated only to painting.  Even my cat has learnt to respect all the stuff lying around and not to step or knock down anything. He also has an addiction to drinking dirty paint brush water...

In the kitchen

Only three sketches this week and rather quick ones.

Still trying get better with cross hatching. I have recently bought a very inspiring book 'Sketch' by France Belleville - Van Stone.

I have finished reading it this week and I will go back to it many times. This lady is my master of cross hatching and amazing sketcher. The book is really inspiring, full of beautiful illustrations but also very honest. I highly recommend it!

I have also finally bought a scanner! After a long research I've decided on Epson V600 and although only started with it, I am very impressed by the quality of scans, especially with my watercolour paintings on rough paper (will post some soon). This scanner uses something called CCD technology, which means it does not detect the texture of the paper so I don't get all these horrible shadows and grey spots which are impossible to remove without using the quality of the painting. Although it is only A4 scan, I am able to half scan my A3 watercolours and then magically photoshop glues them together for me! Really pleased.

(almost) All about the cat.

 Nemi - lots of black ink and my (his) favourite sleeping position.

Nemi and his usual place on my lap.

Nemi on the top of the book case.

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 My poor ill boyfriend but perfect still model.

My socks drying on the heater. I know, most of them don't match...


This week meant to be all about our cat, Nemi. I followed him around, having my sketchbook ready but it was not that easy. First, he moves a lot and when he does not it is most likely he is be sleeping on my lap... and that makes sketching very difficult. Second: he is black! It is hard to paint a black cat with black pen or ink in the way it odes not look like a black blob. I will have to practice more. As a bonus then and to keep myself in the loop, I have also sketched my poorly boyfriend sleeping on the sofa (perfect still model) and my drying socks because I like doing things in colour too.

Things I love Part 2

I enjoyed last week theme so much I've decided to continue with it. Part 2 of my favourite things. Last sketch is a very quick one using ink.

I am hoping to buy a scanner soon so quality of the pictures will be much much better. I hate this grayness of the paper...